Corporate apologies for stop and search: a sorry idea
It would be better to allow officers the powers only when they have demonstrated clear and consistent competence
It would be better to allow officers the powers only when they have demonstrated clear and consistent competence
We should abandon the idea that the police alone keep us safe from crime and that everything else must defer to that goal.
As long as the public cannot see justice being properly exercised in the wake of evidence of police misconduct, then trust will need to be earned, rather than assumed.
Conservative Councillor Roger Taylor, whoes offensive email was released by JUST, will be investigated and is under fire from Labour.
A Tory councillor has called the Lawrence Inquiry a “joke” & attacked the findings of the Hillsborough Report as “overloaded with politically correct language”.
The Trayvon Martin case, and the investigations into racism in the Met, provide a much needed pretext for an open, honest discussion of a difficult subject.
Phil McCarvill argues that the Stephen Lawrence case led to the equalities legislation which we now take for granted.
Shamik Das looks at Stephen Lawrence’s legacy of hope for the future, as his racist killers David Norris and Gary Dobson are jailed for his murder.